1988, B.S., State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., Jacobs School of Management; Major: business administration; Concentrations: finance and management information systems

Personal Interests/Community InvolvementProfessional Affiliations:

Advisory Board, Network for Internet Investigation and Research in Australia

Member, American Psychological Association

Member, Employee Assistance Professionals Association

Founding Member, International Society of Mental Health Online

Fellow, Pennsylvania Psychological Association

Other Education

Professional BackgroundDr. Young is an internationally acknowledged expert and pioneer on Internet addiction and digital detoxification. She is licensed psychologist and she founded the Center for Internet Addiction in 1995.

She has published more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, and four books on Internet addiction. Her research has shown cognitive behavior therapy is effective in curing various forms of Internet-related problems.

Dr. Young's research has been cited by hundreds of media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, CNN, NPR, The London Times, USA Today, Good Morning America, and ABC’s World News Tonight. She has been a keynote speaker at dozens of conferences and universities.

Dr. Young has taught in St. Bonaventure's School of Business since 2002 and recently joined the faculty in the university's Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

She received the Alumni Ambassador Award for Outstanding Achievement from her alma mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Young brings to the program her background as a psychologist and consultant, which makes for a unique contribution to the field of leadership. She maintains a pulse on organizational trends through her consulting firm with respect to employee Internet use policies, practices, and procedures. Much of her work involves dilemmas that organizations face from both managerial and technical perspectives.

She consults in the U.S. and abroad for profits and nonprofits, including IBM, Corning Corporation, and the CIA, on new trends in the management field in training, employee development, and policy development with respect to technology management.

Young, K. S. (1998) Caught in the Net: How to Recognize Internet addiction and A Winning Strategy for Recovery. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Journals & Proceedings:

Young, K. S. (2014). Coauthors include: Zoi Tsimtsiou, Anna-Bettina Haidich, Stamatia Kokkali, Theordoros Dardavesis, and Malamatenia Arvanitidou of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Greek Version of the Internet Addiction Test: A Validation Study to appear in Psychiatric Quarterly, 85: 187-195.

Case, C. J. and Young, K. S. (2011). Ethical Decision Making Among Addicted and Non-Addicted Internet Users. Journal of Business Research Yearbook. Paper was also presented at Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Business Disciplines in New Orleans, LA, Apr. 8, 2011.

Case, C. J. & Young, K.S. (2006) A gender analysis of student music downloading behavior and ethics effectiveness. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 10.1, LasVegas, NV, February 23-26.

Students Hooked on the Net. Plenary address for the Association of Colleges Union International. Toronto, Canada. March 26, 2001.

Students Online: Practical Solutions for K-12 School Systems. Bradford Area School System Teachers Association. Bradford, PA. December 11, 2000.

Employee Internet Misuse: An Epidemic in Need of a Research Framework. Presented at St. Bonaventure University School of Business Research Colloquium on December 6, 2000 with Dr. Carl Case, assistant professor of Management Sciences.

Kids Online: What Every Parent Should Know about their Children and the Internet. Bradford Area School System PTO. Bradford, PA. October 9. 2000.